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Gulf Coast Oil Patch Dodges Hurricanes This Season
A very active Atlantic hurricane season so far this year has not sent storms across U.S. oil and natural gas fields in the northern Gulf of Mexico, sparing energy companies billions of dollars of ...
Top States for Animal Collisions
New analysis released by State Farm indicates U.S. drivers have a 1 in 127 chance of colliding with an animal, while the most common time of the year for these types of collisions to occur is during ...
Drowsy Driver Can Be Liable for Crash if Condition Foreseeable: Mass. Court
A driver who suffers a sudden medical emergency and crashes into another vehicle may be held liable for the accident even if never diagnosed with the condition or never advised not to drive. If the ...
Warming Oceans Causing Atlantic Hurricanes to Rapidly Intensify
With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said ...
Study: Burnout, Lower Employee Health Benefits Could Lead to Exits
U.S. employers across various industries and regions are struggling to meet their employees' health care benefits needs—and employee satisfaction, wellbeing and retention are at stake, according to ...
SEC Clamping Down on Compliance Breaches Via WhatsApp, Zoom
With text messages and emails under tightened surveillance, financial firms may now have to screen staff video calls for possible rule-breaking, amid concern regulators are poised to scrutinize such ...
California Family Pleads Guilty in $38M Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring
A guilty plea was entered yesterday by three Sacramento, California family members relating to charges that they participated in a nationwide catalytic converter theft conspiracy, according to U.S. ...
California Regulators Oppose PG&E Plan to Bury Power Lines to Reduce Wildfire Risk
Pacific Gas & Electric—one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires—wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas ...